Matthias Kaiser was born in Leipzig, East-Germany, in 1951, grew up later in West-Germany, and lives now in Bergen, Norway. He works at the University of Bergen as professor of philosophy of science, and his interdisciplinary research has brought him to many places around the world. He is divorced since 2011, and has three adult daughters, and one grandson. Apart from talking and cooking, he likes to play the electric blues bass guitar. His description of himself is: A refugee and immigrant, rather chaotic and all about ambiguity and uncertainty, in life and work, and otherwise a hardcore liberal European to the bone.